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The Language of the Meat Trade: A Survey of Terms Used by a Selected Sample of Butchers in the United Kingdom
Upton, Clive Stanley
1977
Ph.D. thesis containing seven chapters and three appendices, presenting the findings of an enquiry into the technical lexicon of the meat trade of the United Kingdom which was carried out between 1973...
SED Phonological Map: Meat
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question V.8.3, Meat, mapping the various vowel types found in Northern Counties responses. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, and i...
Dialect recording in Acomb, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A
11 Jul 1939
[Side 1] Joseph, Neil and Albert talk about smoking, different attitudes to smoking, price of baccy [= 'tobacco'], anecdotes about pipe smoking. [Side 2] Joseph, Neil and Albert discuss horses, hens, ...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1960
Mr. Hitchcock, recorded in Netheravon; talks about his parents; Ernest Kent; the pronunciation of the words gate and post [Orton questions]; ploughing; the pronunciation of the word horses; Orton ques...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1960
James Shipway, recorded in Avebury; talks about thatching; the loss of tradespeople in the village; reference to the renovation of a barn in the village [by the National Trust, now the Great Barn]; tr...